NRA Board Member Charles L. Cotton Blames Rev. Clementa Pinckney for Charleston Deaths
Jeremy Stahl, Slate: NRA Board Member Charles L. Cotton Blames Rev. Clementa Pinckney for Charleston Deaths, Once Lamented “loss” of Civil War.
The post about the Charleston attack, which faulted Pinckney’s gun control positions and said his church members would have lived had it not been for that political stance, were apparently deleted from the site as of Friday morning after having been reported on by Media Matters on Thursday night. Here are the remarks:
And he voted against concealed-carry. Eight of his church members who might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns in church are dead. Innocent people died because of his position on a political issue.
In an interview with the Washington Post, Cotton said that the comments were in the context of a discussion about gun-free zones.
“It’s my opinion that there should not be any gun-free zones in schools or churches or anywhere else,” Cotton said. “If armed citizens are in there, they have a chance to defend themselves and other citizens.”
If you want to know who to blame. Mr. Cotton, look in the mirror. Its you and your fellow white nationalists.